how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts? >> two questions, is there more pressure on the vice president now to be aggressive coming off the president's debate, and are you worried about gaffes like that? >> well, look, i don't think that was a gaffe, george. i think what the vice president was talking about is what he's talked about every day, which is a series of eight years of -- >> he said they were buried the last four years. >> well, we've been digging out for what was an avalanche of bad economic decisions over the past eight years during the bush administration, and what mitt romney and paul ryan want to do is take us back to that exact same failed economic theory, talk down tax cuts, eviscerating the investments we know we need to grow our economy from the middle out rather than from the top down. look, i know vice president biden. i know he's looking forward to having a spirited exchange about ideas. i simply hope this, i hope what paul ryan does is something fundamentally different than what mitt romney does, and t